KATY, TX

55,178 lines carrying $17,991,372

The headline pair is $17,991,372 and 55,178 lines. The implied average is about $326. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the KATY book. Filers in Harris and Fort Bend counties typed KATY with state TX.

Katy is a west-Houston suburban string as typed, not a merge with Houston. Sugar Land and Fulshear are neighboring keys. Filers who typed HOUSTON land on another hub. The city total can include a PAC or joint-fundraising committee address when that is the city filers typed. LobbyVault does not recode those rows out of the city string. Read $17,991,372 as tagged federal receipts, not as what residents of KATY gave. The 55,178 lines are disclosed transactions, not unique persons.

If a newsroom map paints KATY together with Houston, Sugar Land, and Fulshear, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $17,991,372 on 55,178 KATY, TX rows, mean near $326. Keep the stored spelling KATY in the citation.

Why KATY on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in Katy give.” The honest citation on this page is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city KATY, TX total $17,991,372 across 55,178 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim. Not on this extract. KATY, TX is the stored suburban string. Houston is a different city key.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $17,991,372. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. A mean near $326 is arithmetic from the two packet facts, not a typical household gift.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city KATY, TX?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city KATY, TX total $17,991,372 across 55,178 contributions in the LobbyVault aggregate. That figure is a city-string roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a census of people who live in Katy. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean near $326 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

Is Katy rolled into Houston on FEC reports?

Not on this extract. KATY, TX is the stored suburban string. Houston is a different city key. LobbyVault counts 55,178 itemized contributions for KATY, TX against $17,991,372. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 55,178 should not be quoted as a population. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does the Katy total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed KATY with state TX. Office addresses and mail that list Katy can be part of $17,991,372 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 55,178-line count follows the same rule.

Are Katy numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $17,991,372 and 55,178 lines for KATY, TX. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from TX are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls.